Apartment shuffle

Uh oh.  I'm sad to see my neighbor of one year moving out.  There is a closet or something in the neighboring apartment with the wall directly adjacent to my bed headboard.  Other than occasional scraping sounds at 5am,  my current neighbor has been remarkably quiet and friendly  - a rare commodity! Crossing fingers for a new neighbor as nice as the one leaving!

Around the neighborhood

Glass entryway to a house up the hill.

Ranked Choice Voting

WTF??!!!  I've read editorial after editorial AGAINST ranked choice voting.  Most of them whining "oh,  woe,  it's TOO CONFUSING! " Now, I realize that half the population is below average intelligence. BUT how difficult is it to vote for your top THREE choices instead of just one?  Especially when there are 14 choices for mayor?! If the population can't handle that,  what about the myriad complicated and confusing ballot initiatives, some of which are INTENTIONALLY misleading and confusing?? (those are yes or no,  but what the hell does the initiative actually mean?) I can only reach the conclusion that it is primarily POLITICAL CANDIDATES who hate ranked choice voting,  because they have to play nice with their closest rivals.  Attack ads could smear both candidates,  moving them down the scale. They can't sort out the best campaign strategy when the smear campaign is eliminated as an option.
The editorials all go into the more complicated process of how votes get eliminated when there is no clear winner.  But that's really something the people counting and the politicians have to worry about. One campaign is urging people to only vote for one candidate across the board,  essentially throwing away their supporters' 2nd and 3rd options because they're afraid people are going to get confused and mark the wrong column on the ballot. I was considering voting for this candidate,  but hearing this makes me less inclined to vote for them.

Places I've eaten in San Francisco

This post will be updated over time. Ratings limited to 1-3 stars, based on combination of price / quality. A fancy restaurant with high prices will rank lower due to the cost factor.

Note: the best food for the price in the entire city is the student cafeteria at City College, due to their culinary program! Be aware that there are multiple sections to the cafeteria, and only one of them has the gourmet stuff for peasant prices.

City College Cafeteria ***
UCSF Cafeteria **

A la Turca ***
Mel's Diner (Geary,Lombard,Mission) **

Pizza? Not worth driving across town for. Burritos? Maybe.
North Beach Pizza (Stanyan,Grant) **
Golden Boy Pizza ***
Escape from New York Pizza (Polk,Castro) **

Sigh... noise.

Good lord, has my otherwise agreeable neighbor of one year decided to become a crackhead, or is this just a random closet cleaning; scraping around on my wall at 0530 pn a Saturday morning?!

A man and a bucket

Yeah, you can't really see up there, a man with a bucket on his head.  Towers of Gold stage at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival.  A friend of mine told me about this guy, so I had to see if he really wore a bucket on his head.  Yep.  Give it a listen!

Robert Plant in town

Robert Plant was playing in my back yard last night, free concert. Where was I? ...at work. Doh. Hardly Strictly Bluegrass

Get up! get on up. GET UP! get on up. James Brown and kids on horses. Oakland. It's the Black Cowboy Parade :-) 
...well, I missed the parade because the exact time wasn't on their web site. But the party was still going on.